The US has imposed sanctions on senior Chinese and Hong Kong security officials for transnational repression and degrading the autonomy of the territory, in a significant move against Beijing by the Trump administration.
Washington placed the sanctions on six officials, including the commissioner of the Hong Kong police force, in response to China’s crackdown on pro-democracy activists in the territory.
Officials in Beijing and Hong Kong “have used Hong Kong national security laws extraterritorially to intimidate, silence, and harass 19 pro-democracy activists who were forced to flee overseas, including a US citizen and four other US residents”, the state department said on Monday.
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